Following on from the recent announcement that the IBJJF would now offer cash prizes to black belt champions at the Brazilian Nationals, the organization have followed it by revealing that they will do the same at Worlds.

Prizes range from $4000 to $7,000, depending on how many athletes sign up for a division. Black belt absolute champions win $10,000, regardless of how many entrants there are.

The prizes for men and women are the same– the only factor in deciding the total amount on offer is how many competitors sign up.

The IBJJF have offered cash prizes in the BJJ Pro series of events and at the semi-annual Grand Prix (such as August's Heavyweight Grand Prix). But until now, none of their open tournaments have offered any kind of monetary reward.

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Road To Gold: Ruan Alvarenga

Sep 14, 2019Michael Sears

Ruan Alvarenga from Alliance Marcelo Garcia was on fire at No-Gi Pans this morning, tapping his way through the brown belt featherweight division. Ruan won the ADCC South American trials to qualify for ADCC later this month but still signed up for No-Gi Pans just a couple weeks out from ADCC. If he was looking at this event as a warm-up for ADCC it certainly worked out for him as he barely broke a sweat on his way to gold.

The plan for Keenan at the 2019 Pan IBJJF Jiu-Jitsu No-Gi Championship was to test out the new techniques and strategies he has been learning with John Danaher and Gordon Ryan at Renzo's gym over the last three weeks.

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A number of elite colored belts have signed up for this weekends IBJJF Pan No-Gi Championship in New York. There are brown belts who are set to compete at ADCC in just a couple weeks and various world champions at blue, purple and brown belt. The brown belts will fight on Saturday the 14th and the purple belts on Sunday the 15th.

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